Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-07-29
Lunsford's Circular.

address to tho voters of the district
setting forth his "views" and for the
purpose of letting the people know
that he has "views" to express, even
at this late day, we will give him the
benefit of free advertisement.
To begin with, Mr.. Lunford tells
how his party, overlooking with graf
itude to aud admiration for him and
DESTROYS of endorsing his convict rec
ord in the Legislature, dragged him
into the contest against his will. He
regrets that he has no organ to ex-
press his views in, when it is fact
that he has been invited time and
again TO set forth his ideas In the col
umns ofhis opponents own paper and
this paper, free of charge.
He attempts 10 ridicule the military
record of his opponent which has
been made an issue wherever it was
thought the fact of his having been
Federal soldier would deprive him of
the support of ex- Confederate Demo-
Gratis. lie also belittles the services
of his own substitute, by regretting
that he is himself without military
fame.
Mr.. Lunsford stultilies himself by
attempting to impeach Mr.. YouDg's
democracy, because lie was Repub-
lican until 1876. Eleven years ago
Mr.. Young left the Republican party
when hundreds of decent men were
driven from it by the Bclknap reve-
iations and other corrupt disclosures
and cast his first Democratic vote for
Tilden and Mckenzie. Since that
time he has been leader of his par
ty in Hopkins county and there is no
better Democrat in the county.
Lunsford next proceeds to deny
that he favored convict labor and |
takes about one fourth of his circu-
lar to explain why he voted for the
convict bill. After reviewing the
situation when the bill came up in
the last Legislature he says:
"The question as to what was best
to do was one difficult of solution.
The bill that my opponent charges
me with supporting was supported
by active and influential advocates
and friends of free labor and we
thought 1t was the best that could be
done at the time and under the pc
culiar circumstances of the case"
Thus we have the spectacle of
bold denial at the start merged into
a pitiful, whining confession little
further on. The facts are that Luns-
ford voted against Thomas resolution
calling for the removal of the con-
yicts from the Central City mines and
afterwards voted for the ten year
bill. The writer of Mr.. LuDsford's
circular knew this, because he was in
Frankfort as the correspondent of
Louisville paper at the time, and yet
he undertakes to deceive the people
and create the impression that Luns-
ford did not vote for the working oil
in competition with free
abor.
He wisely makes no attempt to de-
ny that he voted for increasing the
force, for child labor, and
for the landlord'slien bill. Nor does he
explain why he lodged vote on the
lnti-scrip bill for the benefit Of
miners. Ii
The most notable thing about the I
circular is that 1t makes Mr. Luns-
ord take a position upon the much
'exed prohibition question. Here is
what he is made 10 say: /
"In matters Of local character, af-
Getting The moral condition and well
are of the people, or the police, l
will endeavor to be guided in my
Judgment by the popular sentiment
md expressed wish of the people,"
This of course means that the pro-
libition law is not to be interfered
with, since it is the expressed wish I
If the people"that prohibition should
obtain. Driven to the wall he has
been forced to take position which
loes not differ materially from that
AIKEN by his opponent. But what !
8 TO become of the wet votes pledged
o Mr.. Lunsford upon the idea that !
le was making this race as he made I
lis last one-as whisky candidate 7 |